I am a psychology student and I already do try to follow your advice as much as I can. But reading that makes me feel more inspired to become the best psychologist I can. Thank you.

Well, actually, magical thinking, not the brand you are referring to, is an infantile hold-over. The children who understood the message were now able to do the opposite of thier younger counterparts: they could now give what is external internal signifigance, while truly infantile magical thinking is escribing external signifigance to what it is internal, fantasied omnipotence. Otherwise, your post was dead on. I too often find myself referring to myself in the thirp person in my thoughts, and finding great importance in little things.

I know that this might be "haram" for ye psychologists so wary of not being accepted as scientists - but is it not possible that something beyond the corporeal, the tangible, the (currently) empirically provable -moved those windchimes? A thing as real and as invisible as the love you and your family felt and feel in so many different ways for your departed mother ? Just because it is possible to set up an experiment to ape the magical doesnt mean the magical is no more than superstition -be it developmental accomplishment or infantile manifestation (that being said , it can also be both of those things) .Magic is, I believe, not undemonstrable but it is present in an Empiricist world view.

Socrates described his wisdom as an awareness of his ignorance.

More importantly and I believe, empirically true than any of my responses to magic. I think your students are fortunate to have you